The Nation - News from Dec. 10, 1985

The House, on a voice vote, approved seven regional agreements among 38 states--not including California--for building and operating low-level nuclear waste dumps. The pacts were approved as part of a legislative package aimed at averting a potential low-level waste crisis on Jan. 1. South Carolina, Washington and Nevada had threatened to cut off access on that date to the only three currently operating waste burial facilities. Three other regional agreements, in addition to the seven approved, have been proposed but have not yet been ratified by all of the states involved.